ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 now WORKS CI/QE !

Posted 29 February 2008 - 11:25 PM

pere

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Ok, i tried a Natit for ATY, adding our id (718A) and get black screen and stuck there, but i could see booting with -v that recognices the graphic card as Ati radeon 1450 (this is ok) and tried to use ATY_Alopias.

Now we need to know how to tweak the plugin to make it work. Maybe the plugin is not ok for LCD´s or something like this, or is not the correct Natit. I hope someone more enlighten than me can show the path....

Posted 02 March 2008 - 02:13 PM

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i found this on a website about the x2300:

Indeed, they reveal the presence of the X2300 HD, codenamed 'M71'. The vanilla X2300 appears to be codenamed 'M64'. Both have 'M' and 'S' variants, indicated by an appropriate suffix to the codename. AMD's M71M chip, incidentally, has been approved for PCI Express compatibility by the PCI SIG, so its release can't be far off.

there was not much else information about it, but it makes me think... what is the m54 version then? Lot's of people have that as well i read here.. :Soke.

that worked fine all the times i did it, with video card working but not recognized and no CI/QE. Res is 1024 x 768So, once installed, what do i do next? There are so much stories going here now...do this?

Posted 02 March 2008 - 02:30 PM

pere

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i found this on a website about the x2300:

Indeed, they reveal the presence of the X2300 HD, codenamed 'M71'. The vanilla X2300 appears to be codenamed 'M64'. Both have 'M' and 'S' variants, indicated by an appropriate suffix to the codename. AMD's M71M chip, incidentally, has been approved for PCI Express compatibility by the PCI SIG, so its release can't be far off.

there was not much else information about it, but it makes me think... what is the m54 version then? Lot's of people have that as well i read here.. :Soke.

that worked fine all the times i did it, with video card working but not recognized and no CI/QE. Res is 1024 x 768So, once installed, what do i do next? There are so much stories going here now...do this?

but only find 8771 in 1 incidence. and I really don't know how to proper install atix1000.kext ,so just replace it from downloaded one. mac said the extensions function wrong.well, I add <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>"1280x800x32"</string>after restarting, I got "1280x800" but no CI/QE ! so I CAN'T INSTALL FINAL CUT!seems everyone gets difference. does x2300 has several kinds of chips?! i don't know!!btw,i downgrade VISTA to XP ,the x2300 driver still a messi notice the sony website x2300 driver is different from those over internet ones.the sony one install " .net 2.0 " first and install driver.and it works.others only install driver without " .net " and they fail to work in xp!

Posted 03 March 2008 - 05:50 PM

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what did u change in your .kext that you are offering for download? Perhaps we can learn from that...

[offtopic] is it a good idea to make a 15 GB MacOSX partition, and an 30 GB fat32 partition to be shared? My vista disk is now 56 GB and almost full, AND NTFS. The mac install can't read that and it's a complex job of transferring large files from vista to mac... [/offtopic]

Posted 03 March 2008 - 06:30 PM

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Ok, i have been reading and reading, about our x2300, the second display and others solutions...

This is what i have find:

Our X2300 is a model lifted from the 1450, so even we can find the way to add now our id to x1000 kext, the framebuffer is different from old 1450, maybe we have to try with Callisto framebuffer??. I will try, but first i need a ATIinject or a NAtit that is compatible with 1450, please help me on this.

The second display is not Hardware enabled on boot, need software in order to work , so is nearly impossible to make it work till we find the NAtit or Atiinject the recognizes or model. Correct me if im wrong.

People has report the paperclip method on the vga out to make x1450 works, i havent try yet, but if ATIx2300 second monitor is software enabled, i dont know if this solution will really work....

Im still trying Natits, Atiinjects, and only get black/frozen screen...
WIll post what i find.

CicloneFr, we apreciate so much your help, please continue giving us clues to make this framebuffer works.

Posted 04 March 2008 - 08:14 PM

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i think this site could be usefull about understanding how the mac OSX handles the buffers and the Core Graphics etc... it's only for mac OSX 10.4, but maybe we can learn something. Didn't read the whole article though, but what i've read was pretty interesting:

Posted 23 March 2008 - 11:38 AM

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using this method i managed CI & QE enabled for my ATI mobility radeon x2300 on vaio vgn-cr11zr, but there are some artefacts appear during work. somebody have an issue of that? resolution 1280x800 after editing startup strings

UPD: use mouse locator to remove artefacts, after installing it everything is OK